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Hot Headlines, August-September 2006

August 27-Sept. 3

Frank Rich on Donald Rumsfeld's Dance With the Nazis
Cheney makes major rhetorical reversal on Iraq
It has been five years since Al Qaeda attacked America -- and they are still on the loose and recruiting
Iraq: A Sweeping, Secret New Report
Shia moderate Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani losing control of Iraqi followers
Friends of Hillary Clinton: she is not running for Prez
Democrats Unwilling to Put Kibosh on Win This Fall
Number of GOP Congressional Districts Counted as Vulnerable Doubled Over Summer
FBI Role in Miami "Can We Get Jihad Boots?" Terror Probe Questioned"
White House dictates conditions of news coverage
Paul Krugman is right about corporations and real wages
The Katherine Harris Senate Run Disaster In Review
New book reveals secret Rove-Abramoff meetings -- and that Rove's stepfather is gay
Phony TV "watchdog" Brent Bozell steps down
John Aravosis on ABC's attempt to influence the November elections by broadcasting an anti-Clinton 9/11 "documentary" that's really fiction
Is The Constitution Going To Be Used Against Democrats In November?
More Divided GOP: Gröpenführer Says He Would Decline Bush's Help In Campaign
Army Investigator Recommends Death Penalty For Soldiers In Iraq Raid
Why are foreign countries helping the Republican re-election campaign?
Laughable FOX Analyst: New Tape Shows Al Qaeda Using "All of the Antiwar Arguments" And "Turning Them Back Against Us"
US forces kill 3 Iraq civilians
Media confused on CIA leak case
Rove's word is no longer GOP gospel
Republican DUI offender running for Senate in Washington state
CIA Al-Qaeda Expert: "Bit Of Whistling Past The Graveyard When We Say The Organization Is Broken"
FBI Terror Probe Tactics Raise Questions Of Entrapment
Alaska Office Raid Investigating Oil Company-Lawmaker Link...Sen. Ted Stevens' Son Among Those Searched
Must See TV: Keith Olbermann on Rummy Reloaded
$450 million slush fund for Bush from Canadian lumber deal, just in time for the mid-terms
Just where is Osama bin Laden?
September Surprise: Democrats Must Fight and Win On American Security
Don Rumsfeld, On The Ropes, Desperately Tries Placating Democrats
NY Times attacks Patrick Fitzgerald with article questioning his use of prosecutorial discretion in CIA leak investigation
ABC docudrama on 9/11, scripted by right wing Neocon apologist, blasts Clinton and praises the inept George W. Bush
"Doctor? This Is John Hinderaker. I Need An Emergency Refill On My Levitra. RIGHT NOW!"
Steve Gilliard debunks another ridiculous Moonie Times article, this one on black Democrats
In Navajo country, racism rides again
Nevada Democrats beam in new spotlight
MoveOn won’t endorse Senator Clinton or challenger Tasini in upcoming primary
Violence and resentment of US military push tens of thousands of Arab families toward secure provinces of Iraqi Kurdistan
Newt Gingrich flip-flops on Iran
In Pakistan, our good friend Generalissimo Musharraf’s truces with warlords and militias is fueling Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan
Bush’s Shift of Tone on Iraq and the Grim Cost of Losing: Yes, They Are Related
Pentagon’s report gets no response from Bush, Cheney, Rummy
Smear Boat Liars do TV spot for Joe Lieberman
Pittsburgh Mayor Bob O’Connor Dies at 61
TNR’s very own Sock puppet: I give you Mr. Lee Siegel
Atrios with more on moron Lee Siegel
GOP Infighting Update: Judge Denies Bid for New NV Primary
The Year Of The Black Republican? Let Oliver Willis Set You Straight
Tom Feeney Evicts Clint Curtis From ’Public’ Meeting!
Russia hints it won’t back Iran penalties
Wayne Barrett kicks ass on MSNBC, refutes Norah O’Donnell’s stupid assertion that "you can’t honestly say" Giuliani "could have predicted that" the World Trade Center "would have been attacked"
Must See TV! John Dean on Rumsfeld’s rantings: "This is text book authoritarianism"
Why does Schering-Plough hate America?
Judge Tosses Ohio Voter Sign-Up Rules
Judge Delays Order Allowing Felons to Vote in AL
Larry C. Johnson: Smearing the Wilsons and Sliming America
Bush Setting Up Next Terror Speech
Colorado GOP Meltdown Heats Up
John Murtha has a history lesson for Bush
Alan Colmes takes Coulter apart for her "impeach or assassinate" suggestion about Clinton; Hannity smeared liberals: "[Y]ou’re appeasers"
From D.C., Alaska Senator Keeps An Eye (and A Hand) Out For His Son
Wankerville and Joseph Wilson: The Right Wing Obfuscates Traitorgate
TX-22: Where Democracy Goes Crazy!
GOP continues to fracture over qWagmire -- Ohio Republican Rep. Pat Tiberi: "I Can’t Defend How The President Laid Out The Need For" Iraq War..."I Don’t Support Rumseld"
Republican ranks continue to shrink, at lowest in 30 months
Alaska FBI Raid: PLEASE Tell Us They Found the Hats
TPM Reader Keeps Scalia Honest
Kenneth Y. Tomlinson -- Down, But Not Out
Meet Cyrus Nowrasteh, the right-wing extremist behind the ABC 9/11 TV movie
Coming GOP meltdown may take down worst UN [amb]ass[ador] ever! Conservatives fear Bolton won’t win confirmation
Pennsylvania Paper Rips Santorum: He "Has Given No Previous Indication Of Any Knowledge Of Foreign Affairs, But Waving Around The Words ’Islamic Fascism’ May Take The Cake"
More Americans with doubts about so-called war on terror
For AK Scandal Company, Money Can’t Buy Happiness -- But Influence? Perhaps...
Pentagon: Iraq violence spreading
Cook County Clerk Runs for Chicago Mayor
Sen.(ile) Conrad Burns’s Latest Gaffe: Tells Montana Gov To Declare Fire Emergency A Month After Gov Had Done So
Must See TV: Al Franken Cracks Up Dem Senators With Dick Cheney Jokes
Must See TV: CNN Anchor Kyra Phillips Goes On Letterman With "Top Ten Excuses" For Putting Bathroom Chatter On Air Over Bush Speech
President Bush Iraq speeches version 3.0
Democrats Setting Up No Confidence Vote In Rumsfeld
"We are experiencing dangerous human disruption of the global climate and we’re going to experience more"
WSJ: Republicans losing advantage over national security
Paul Krugman on the Big Disconnect
Chertoff wants more personal data, but can we trust him?
Recent Wave Of Apologizing Politicians Remarkable In Its Frequency And Sweep
President Bush and Islamo-Mush
Gore: Gen Y can ’save the world’
Burns can ’self-destruct in one sentence’
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: "We will not be Swift-boated on this issue... We will fight them on national security."
Watch this! Charles Sanders (OH-03) Confronts The Iraq Lies Of The Bush Administration And Creates Sensation
Watch this! Katherine Harris On Sen. Nelson’s Projected 30-Point Lead: "You Can Make Polls Say Whatever You Want" (and if anyone knows anything about making polls say whatever you want...(
Air America fires Mike Malloy
Media figures repeat false claim that Armitage role in Plame leak exonerates Libby and Rove
With Prospect of Losing Both Houses in November Looking More and More Possible With Each Passing Day, GOP Desperately kisses up to liberal Lincoln Chafee
Warren Jeffs Should Have Contributed to the GOP
Catapulting the Propaganda: Positive Press on Iraq Is Aim of U.S. Contract
WaPo smears Amb. Joseph Wilson, again
Bush demands action as Iran snubs UN
Bush takes new propaganda tack, compares terrorists to Nazis
Senator George Felix Macaca Allen Jr. Declines Award From Minority Group
The Bush rhetoric on Iraq is sounding desperate
New York has devised an ingenious approach to stopping the flow of guns into the city
Dem. Ciro Rodriguez Reconsiders Dropping U.S. House Bid In Wake of Texas Redistricting Ruling, Weak Showing by Henry Bonilla
Activists Want Ohio Election Chief Out
FBI raids seven Alaska GOP lawmakers’ offices
Senate candidate Jim Webb’s Son Going to Iraq
Where’s Jenna? Where’s Barbara?
Bush’s agenda: Scaring up votes, literally
Watch this! Katherine Harris claims "wave of support"
47 more Iraqis dead today from "staying the course"
The President has "made his choice" -- more wars
Keith Olbermann vs. Doddering Don Rumsfeld: Defining the Real "New Fascism"
GOP candidate won’t dump "wrong" $468k
More feeble jobs numbers
RI-SEN: NRSC Spends Over $500,000 On Chafee -- In Primary
He’s Baaack: John Bolton... Still Bad for America
Pat BuKKKanan: "The Country I Grew Up In" Was "89 or 90 Percent White. I Like That Country"
Sen. Byrd Confirms "Secret Hold" on Porkbusting Bill -- And Drops It
MSNBC’s Tusker Carlson mocks FOX’s Your World guest list: "Our civilization -- is it collapsing? Has it already collapsed?"
Report: Sacramento next major flood?
Republican Iraq vet slams Admin. for fascist talk
Five days before Labor Day, President Bush recess appoints Paul DeCamp, an anti-labor Wal-Mart shill as head of the U.S. Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division
Rush Limbaugh blames Liberals for obesity: "Didn’t teach them how to butcher a -- slaughter a cow to get the butter, we gave them the butter"
More lies: Ken Mehlman Falsely Claims Rep. Shays (R-CT) Doesn’t Support Military Timeline For Iraq
Watch this! Santorum Calls Lieberman Loss "A Tragedy"
Report: PBS Broadcast Chief Kenneth Y. Tomlinson Misused Funds
Oh. My! GOD!!! Sen. John McCain dressed supporters in Confederate uniforms
OH-Gov: Cleveland Plain Dealer gets punk’d
CT-Sen: Lieberman’s revenge ploy | VA Gov. Mark Warner backs Howard Dean 50-state playbook, chides oh-so-last-century Beltway Paleodemocrats
Francine Busby Blasts CA-50 Lawsuit Dismissal, a First Since Illegally Adminstered June 6th U.S. House Special Election
Watch This! Nancy Pelosi: "I Have Long Thought That The Secretary Of Defense’s Judgment Has Been Impaired" | Say It Ain’t So, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, Say It Ain’t So | Sen. Ted Stevens is blocking anti-pork bill | WI-Gov: Green (R) is toast
Whiny Cat Killer Bill Frist complains that "spotlight" is on Iraq
New Orleans DA Walks Out Of "Stupid" ABC Interview
AZ-08: Another GOP civil war gives Dems an opening
CNN Apologizes To Bush, Viewers For Accidentally Airing Kyra Phillips’s Bathroom Conversation
Whistleblower Uses YouTube To Accuse Lockheed Martin Of Jeopardizing Natl. Security
Watch this! Brian Williams Interviews a pretty incoherent Bush
Sen. George Felix Allen Jr. and the White Kollar Klan: VA Candidate Was a Racist Well Before the "Macaca" Hit the Fan
State Department report shows massive corruption of senior Bush official
Poor Katherine Harris, Poster Woman For Senate Republican Recruiting Woes
Desperate W House Launching PR Campaign Against Democratic and GOP Calls For Troop Withdrawal.
Cheney tried to use CIA in 2004 to mislead the American public about Iraq
Now hear this! Glenn Greenwald Discusses FISA on the Alan Colmes Show
Bush White House subpoenaed by wiretap lawyers
Another Ethical Lapse For Bill Frist: "Kittie Kevorkian" Admits He May Have Lied On Medical License Renewal
Richard Armitage Confirms He Was "Initial And Primary" Source In Treasongate Leak Case
FOX News Channel's Ratings Take a Nosedive
Senate moves to give Bush more power to wiretap
Ohio to destroy 2004 presidential election paper ballots
Armitage Bends To Novak's Will, Fesses Up
Rick "The Virginian" Santorum Working Hard To "Create A Diversion From Issues Such As The War In Iraq"
Talk About Projection! Fascism Is New Buzz Word Among GOP
A new day and yet another stock option probe
George Felix Allen Jr. and his racist hate group friends
California Voters, Courts Left Powerless to Challenge Illegally Administered Election According to San Diego Judge's Ruling
Tom Coburn Fingers Ted Stevens As "Hold" Saboteur Behind Stopping Porkbuster Bill
Jack Cafferty Nails It Again: Katrina may be Viewed as the Defining Moment of the Bush Presidency
Conservative Mag: GOP Fracturing Under Bush
TX-22: Gov Perry Calls Special Election
E. J. Dionne Jr on divided, bickering GOP: "Growing Number Of Republicans Now Echoing Democratic Criticisms Of The War"
"Conservatives" cheer on Judge Posner's highly un-conservative defense of federal police powers
CO-05: Why you never, ever, ever abandon a seat
WA-05: Democrats make it interesting in eastern Washington
MI-Gov: (R) poll also shows Granholm surge
Top "Hedge Fund" Prober Gets $2.5M Buyout -- From Hedge Fund
Nine US soldiers killed this past weekend in Iraq
Iran president:'I want to debate Bush'
Cheney: NSA ruling 'will be reversed'
FL judge blocks 'prohibitively expensive' fines on voter registration groups
Great Plains face a modern Dust Bowl
Watch this! Corrupt politicians, lobbyists struggle to escape voters' wrath
Recent Racist Comments Feeding Perception That GOP Is Out Of Touch
Dear Media, ask Dick Cheney WHO suggested we should appease the terrorists?
US appeases terrorist-coddling Moqtada al-Sadr again as bodies with torture marks found in Iraq
Schumer comes up roses on Net Neutrality
GOP Likely To Lose DeLay's Seat To Democratic Candidate
Sen. John Kerry revives 2004 Ohio election theft issue in fundraising e-mail
Local CT Republicans May Ditch GOP Candidate To Back Lieberman
Tobacco wars about to ramp up again
Alter: Bush still 'blind to poverty'
Will Howard Kurtz continue to put Powerlie blog's John "Assrocket" Hinderaker on his CNN show? | Some say Dick Cheney is wrong to have sex with a six-year-old boy
Judge Blocks Fla. Voter Registration Law
New Official Cheney Biographer Is Main Theorist Behind False Iraq-9/11 Connection | Harper's: GOP Lawmaker Votes His Portfolio
Cruel and inhuman department: Saddam Hussein forced to watch 'South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut'
Justice Department Not Seeking 9/11 Charges Against Osama Bin Laden
David Corn: The Meaning of the Armitage Leak News
Bush is setting up Colin Powell to take the fall on Valerie Plame
Karl Rove is Making Troop Deployment Decisions to Steal Election 2006
Judge Blocks Fla. Voter Registration Law
RI-Sen: NRSC puts everything into rescuing Chafee
Video: FOX News Channel questions CIA leak book--without even giving title
Chuckwagon: House AND Senate? | NH-02: CQ profiles the Hodes-Bass matchup
Voters Agree US Political System Is Badly Broken
Receptionist-Turned-Lobbyist Faces Probe
OH-Sen, Gov: Good tidings from the Buckeye State
Colbert To Emmy Audience: "Good Evening Godless Sodomites" | Gore Lashes Out at Media Consolidation | Al Franken to National Review: "Dear Right-Wing People ..."
Ouch & Double Ouch
Katrina Insurance Whistleblowers: "I Think We've Given Him The Smoking Gun"
Alabama Dems Tell Holocaust Denier He Is Not Welcome In Party
Still more unchecked powers for the Bush administration
Book reports Armitage 'outed' Valerie Plame to Robert Novak, Bob Woodward
Newsweek: Armitage Confessed To Being Plame Leak — And State Department Kept It A Secret
Experts: U.S. 'coming apart at the seams'
Frank Rich: Bush Returns to the Scene of the Crime
Dems poised to retake House
GOP Candidate Faces Fire Over Anti-Gay Writing
US Government not sure if the New Orleans rebuilt levees will hold
Stay The Course: The Iraqi Ripoff
Bigotry: Out in the Open
Lieberman is refusing to support Democratic House candidates

August 26

Larisa Alexandrovna's Most trusted Names in News
Sheldon Drobny, a hero to progressives and Democrats, continues to defy the right-wing and media distortion about Air America
Meet The Bozells: The America-Hating Family From Hell
Defying UN, Iran opens reactor
Guess Which of TV's "Conservative" Celebs Dominates the Web?
Dems Threaten "No Confidence" Vote On Rumsfeld
Bob Kuttner: The Cheney presidency
A Kossack predicts Joe Lieberman will drop out of the CT-Sen race
Ken Blackwell race-baits Charles Rangel
Aero's Cloaks and Daggers
Yo, Christian Republicans!
Bush: "I'm responsible for the Federal government." Constitution: "No, you're not."
Nuremberg Prosecutor Wants War Crimes Trial for Bush
NYT study finds 41% of corps receiving buyout bids in last year show "abnormal and suspicious" trading before deals went public
State Farm denies 20/20 report it cheated Katrina victims
Chis Hitchens, flustered by truth-telling Bill Maher and audience, flips Real Time crowd the bird
Al Qaeda may be FOX Journo kidnappers
GOP, Medicare Scam Bought, Paid and Marketed by PhRMA
Dynamite on a flight? No big deal to Bush's Keystone Cops!
Beltway Dems realize they'd better back Ned Lamont... for their own good!
Take THAT, gas guzzlers! Virginia Refuses To Shut Down HOV Lanes For Bush Motorcade
Iraq General: Rumsfeld Gave Military "A Huge Bowl Of Chicken Feces...To Turn Into Chicken Salad...And It Is Not Working"
Texas School Suspends 519 Students For Skipping Summer Reading
George Felix Allen Jr. Still Telegraphing Neoconfederate Message
Mark Steyn, hero to Neocon loonies, is even wronger than before!
TN-Sen: Corker (R) hit with subpoena
Now not-so-stealth Republican is flip-flopping on an Iraq pullout
A Year After Katrina, New Orleans awaits billions in fed aid
Ex-Senator George Felix Allen Jr. (R-Macaca) cancels event after being harangued by monkey and banana
Katherine Harris, religious bigot

August 25

HOT POLITICS -- Bush Meets With Republican Good Ol' Boy, But Not Sheehan | Desperate Liddy Dole Uses Impeachment Hysteria for Fundraising | Who Made Them Boss Anyway Department: Firing Squad Looms for the Dem Party Oligarchy | Alabama Democratic Party disqualifies Patricia Todd --and her opponent | GOP divided again as several northeastern Republicans distance themselves from Bush | GOP Drops In Religion Poll | PA-Sen, PA-Gov: New Polls, Or, \Why A Five Point Lead Is Good\"" | Court Rules against Green Challenge; Case Heads to PA Supreme Court | Watch this! Blue America's Joe Sestak | Shunning the party label: more anti-Democratic baloney from the conventional Beltway thinkers | Poll: Casey Leads Santorum in Pa. Race | NM-01: Madrid (D) poised for pickup | Approving Use of Wiretap, Judge Deals Blow to Free Press | The color of money: Greens, Ralph Nader on the hook over nomination 'deception' | FDA Approves Morning After Pill Without A Prescription
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Bush's latest PR hoax: Rockey Vaccarella | Republican Rep. "Mean" Jean Schmidt (Idiot-OH( Accused Of Faking Marathon Photo | Charges Against Ky. Governor Dismissed | Bush Cultism extraordinaire | House Majority Leader's grasp of Iraq War is, um, not so hot | Charges Dismissed against KY Gov.
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Judicial Watch Smears Judge Who Ruled Warrantless Wiretapping Is Illegal, Media Takes The Bait | Company Wants to Implant ID Microchips under Soldiers' Skin | Moonie cultists smash up newsroom, threaten to kill reporter | Latest wingnut slander: Those opposed to nuclear annihilation are appeasers and guilty of "handwringing" | Rove Attacks Federal Judge For Ending Bush Admin's Warrantless Wiretaps
QWAGMIRE -- Majority Says Iraq War Has Made US Less Safe From Terrorism | Israel Buys 2 Nuclear Subs, Experts Say It's A Message To Iran | GOP divisions on Iraq intensify as Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT) Jumps on Iraq Timeline Bandwagon | Jerusalem Post: Israel May "Go It Alone" Against Iran | Is the marketing campaign against Iran begun?
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Rove imagines different outcomes for 9/11 -- how about if his boss was paying attention? | They Want Their HezTV! FBI arrests NY cable provider for rebroadcasting Hezbollah-controlled al Manar | Osama Gets His Groove Back? Publisher Defends OBL Ex-Lover's Claims
BORDER BUNGLES --
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Yes To India, No To Iran: Bush Administration Sends Contradictory Message On Nuclear Programs
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE --
OPERATION YELLOW ELEPHANT! --
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- A Spectacle So Bizarre that Scoobie Himself Had To See It To Believe It: Pat Robertson and David Horowitz, Together on the 666 Club | Watch this! Ann Coulter meltdown as truth proves to be an even bigger bitch than her! | After three weeks, still no sign of Horowitz's and Poe's "exhaustive" rebuttals to Media Matters' debunking of The Shadow Party | Situation Room or Romper Room? Wolf Blitzer Tricked On Air By JonBenet Prankster
FOX WATCH -- Shep Smith On Katrina: One of the few Foxheads who isn't a completely mindless Bushbot speaks the truth
WHAT A RUSH! --
$MIRKONOMICS --
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- All Hail Founding Comrade Sam! Wal-Mart Gets Communist Party Branch -- No, We Are NOT Making This Up! | AT&T sues cell phone records thieves
DEAD DUBAI DEAL --
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION --
BUDGET MESS --
$OCIAL IN$ECURITY -- Watch this! Sen. Rick "The Virginian" Santorum Dodges Social Security Gorilla
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Unique small businesses fail to come back in New Orleans | $10 million in donations raised for Katrina relief by U.S. school children – "more than [the amount] almost every major U.S. corporation gave"
HOMELAND HIJINKS --
ELECTION THEFTS -- Forbes -- that's right, Forbes -- publishes a total scathe of electronic voting machines
JUSTICE WATCH --
GUNS! GUNS!! GUNS!!! --
FILEGATE.GOP --
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) seeks answers about evolution's disappearance from federal grant list | Teacher Placed On Leave For Hanging Foreign Flags
OH, GOD! -- Katherine Harris Shows Her Dominionist Side: "Separation Of Church And State" Is A Lie, "God Is The One Who Chooses Our Rulers"
RACISM IN THE USA -- Now hear this! Limbaugh's Survivor Predictions Called Racist | Gibson Now Calling Jewish Entertainment Chiefs To Apologize Personally For Rant | Nine African-American students in Louisiana were ordered to move "to the back of the school bus" by white driver | GOP Sen. Elizabeth Dole Pooh-poohs Seriousness of Sen. Conrad Burns' Racist Remarks As "A Silly Thing"
MORALITY MORONICS --
ENERGY SCANDALS --
HEALTH DEBACLES -- White House Falsely Claims New Stem Cell Study 'Has Not Been Reviewed By Scientists and Bio-Ethicists Yet' | FDA Approves Morning After Pill Without A Prescription | Bush Administration Invents New Excuse To Oppose Embryonic Stem Cell Research
WEIRD SCIENCE --
TRASHING NATURE --
JEBBIE'S BANANA REPUBLIC --
KAHLEEFAUNIA DREAMIN' --
GAY IN AMERICA -->

August 24

HOT POLITICS -- Look like a failure, George! By linking Iraq with the war on terror, Bush has created a dynamic that threatens to destroy him | Watch this! DNC Chair Howard Dean Goes Medieval on GOP, Bush, Administration, qWagmire... you name it! | Swag watch: Get your very own "Pull My Finger" Farting Bush Doll today! | Bush is the closest thing to the al Qaeda candidate, and anyone who wants US troops to remain in Iraq is the next best thing to an al Qaeda enabler | Veterans group: Bush must reinstate draft or lose Iraq | Fallin wins GOP primary runoff for Istook's seat | Let's Landslide: Memo to Democrats | Lieberman Campaigning With Republicans | Campaign macacanomics: George Allen raises money for Jim Webb | Is McCain too old to be president? | Republicans hit with flurry of campaign woes | UAW Members Endorse Ned Lamont | 36 percent! | WY-AL: Cubin's weak primary results | Pat Buchanan's Anti-Hispanic Rhetoric Echoes Earlier Anti-Immigrant Hysteria | Tarnishing Rudy Guiliani's aura on 9/11 | MI-Gov: Granholm showing signs of life | MA-Gov: Latest Dem primary poll | CT-Sen: Tech vendors turn down Lieberman | CT-Sen: GOP goes to bat for Lieberman; they hate people who "make a living" | Increasing speculation that Joe Lieberman will join the Republicans if he wins | AK-Gov: Angry Republicans purge their party | Willie Nelson Endorses Missouri Senate Candidate | George W. Bush, "man of letters" | Conservative Rag: "A Lot Of Doom And Gloom In The White House Over The U.S. Future In The Middle East"
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- More support for John Dean's thesis found in Powerliar John Assrocket's "big brother" | Bush sues Maine to protect Verizon | Great Kentucky Blog Ban Rumbles into Court | Bush supporters develop sudden interest, expertise in judicial ethical rules
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Congressman Doolittle? More like Do-nothing | GOPer and Alleged Coin Thief on for October Trial | GOP Lying Yet Again: Ned Lamont Does Not Support 'Immediate Withdrawal' From Iraq | Medicare involved in $50 million "glitch"
TRAITORGATE -- Plame to Sue Former State Official over Leak?
QWAGMIRE -- Bush Showing Pessimism On Iraq | The Cult of the Offensive | Does More War Require a Draft? | Hezbollah leader Nasrallah has emerged from the ruins of Lebanon as a folk hero -- but is his facade of unity beginning to crack? | John Murtha Says Signs Point That Iraq War Getting Worse, Not Better | Iran Nuke Facility Was a U.S. Cold War Gift; Now cited as evidence of weapons activity, facility was provided to shah's government | Group: Bush can reinstate the draft, or lose the Iraq War | Lebanese children victims of unexploded cluster bombs | Rep. John Murtha (D-PA): Marine recall shows Iraq getting worse | Bush Takes Another August Vacation While "Peace And History Could Be Hanging In The Balance" | The almost-all-volunteer military | Iraq War Debilitating U.S. Marine Corps | Syria Warns It Will Consider International Border Troops "Hostile" | Sen. Biden: Bush "Doesn't Have Much Of A Theory" On Iraq | New Gaza Group Claims Responsibility For Kidnapped Fox Journalists
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- With a growingly skeptical public no longer believing him, Team Bush scrambles to revamp "terror terror terror" message | U.S., Bush blunders help terrorists thrive | Osama Expert: the Bin Laden I Know Doesn't Groove Like That | NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg Says Americans Are "Too Freaked Out" About Terrorism..."Much Greater Risk From Lifestyles That Hurt You" | Guardian: "War On Terror" Has Made Iran More Powerful
BORDER BUNGLES --
FAULTY INTELLIGENCE -- Significant gaps in American intelligence on Iran | U.S. Spy Agencies Scapegoated On Iran
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Mayor Giuliani's leadership comes under fire in an important new book | PBS Ombud Blasts Network's Snow Job on Pundit's Concealed Plum Administration Post | Watch this! Jack Cafferty Has a Word or Two on Racist Republican Remarks | Meet Jonathan Kaplan, The Hill's shallow in-house vulgarian | San Francisco Zoo Horse Named "Coulter" | Despite his best efforts to sabotage himself, Sam Seder is finding success on Air America | Stewart And Colbert Stay The Course: Attack Bush, And The Lies | Congressman Who Told Colbert He Enjoyed Cocaine Gets His Own Reality Show
FOX WATCH -- Maybe Dick Morris should stick to toe-sucking, something he reportedly does well...
WHAT A RUSH! -- Limbaugh's idea of hilarity: racist stereotyping
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Forbes Pulls Anti-Career Woman Article From Website
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- W House Begins Katrina Anniversary PR Blitz | Bush Meets With Rockey Vaccarella, A Katrina Activist Who Wishes 'The President Could Have Another Term In Office' | Does Rockey sound too good to be true? Well, guess what? He is! | Katrina: Unsung Villain Gets Due in New Book
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- 60% of security force failed tests at Orlando Airport
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- The GOP Hates Science: Evolution Major Vanishes From Approved Federal List
OH, GOD! -- Republican Moonie David Payer running for IA State House, Dist. 61 | Christian Coalition Of America Losing Chapters; three disgruntled state affiliates sever ties
RACISM IN THE USA -- Racist Neoconfederate Candidate and Ex-Sen. George Felix Macaca Allen Jr. Formally Apologizes for Racist Remark, But We Doubt He Is Sorry At All | Racist GOP ad in RI GOP Senate Primary | Target of racial slur demands GOP Senator George Felix Allen Jr. call him to apologize | Rep. Peter King (R-NY) pays lip service to diversity | Pitchfork Pat Buchanan: Hispanic Immigrants Not Assimilating Into America Because They Embrace 'Rap Culture'
ENERGY SCANDALS -- IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) unveils renewable energy pla
GAY IN AMERICA -- Religious right accused of tricking signatories in anti-gay campaign

August 23

Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson Threaten to Sue ex-Deputy Secretary Of State Dick Armitage
Cry me a river: Scooter "Traitor" Libby Denied Access to Some Classified Documents | Armitage The Plame Leak? Sure Looking Like It
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- DeLay Co-Defendants: Law Is Too Confusing
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Power grab: Bush asks too much of the states and the Guard | Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, who struck down blatantly illegal wiretaps, is being tarred by right with fake "conflict of interest", called tool of the ACLU
HOT POLITICS -- Time to downsize the Rudy Giuliani 9/11 myth | Anti-incumbency from coast to coast: Alaska governor Frank Murkowski loses decisively in Republican primary | SUSA's latest 50-state governor ratings | Watch Paul Hackett on Hardball | For TX GOP, Is Disaster Spelled S-H-E-L-L-E-Y S-E-K-U-L-A--G-I-B-B-S? | Bush's Four-Letter Expletives, Shoulder Massages Could "Raise Eyebrows" In Many Office Settings | Michael Steele: I'm Going To Spin Right To Your Face | Via Kos: 50-state Senator rankings | Katherine Harris Campaign Loses Yet Another Top Staffer | Scandal Firm Earned Big Till The End | Now conservatives are turning on Rick "The Virginian" Santorum | Two polls show Lamont closing the gap | Conservative Magazine: Newt Gingrich Positioning Himself For A Presidential Run
QWAGMIRE -- Is Bush Himself a Clear and Present Danger? | Bush faces revolt on Iraq | New Direction: Americans Say Dems Would Do A Better Job Handling Iraq | Watch this! Bob Greenwald launches trailer for "Iraq for Sale" | Bush Authorizes "Involuntary Recall" To Send Thousands Of Marines Back To War | The Warmongers Return, Angling for Iran | Nothing short of an idiot calls qWagmire "Nothing short of a miracle" | McCain: Team Bush Led People To Believe Iraq "Could Be Some Kind Of Day At The Beach" | Regime Change at Pentagon? | Watch this! Wishful thinking from Bill Kristol, or advance word -- or both? 'We Could Be In A Military Confrontation With Iran Much Sooner Than People Expect' | Cut and run: Poodle flees chimp as word Britain may cut its force in Iraq in half by the middle of next year emerges | Poll: Opposition To Iraq War Reaches All-Time High
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Americans aren't buying the Bush terror message this time | That's just swell: Uranium lost in New Jersey, radioactive material missing globally | Osama Hearts... Whitney Houston?
BORDER BUNGLES -- Sen. Conrad Burns: My House Painter Is "A Nice Little Guatemalan Man...I Asked Him 'Could I See Your Green Card?'"
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- US interventions have boosted Iran, says report | Sen. James Inhofe (R-Idiot): UN Peacekeepers Are "Going Around Teaching Girls To Be Prostitutes" | Iran's "Supreme Leader" lashes out at Bush
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Net Neutrality Blogswarms: They Work! | John Kerry has Showdown with Hack Reporter, Hits Raw Nerve that Reporter Reveals to Bloggers After Conference Call | Watch this! Paul Hackett Manhandles GOP Talking-Points Action Figure | Republican TV host Joe Scarborough reveals why he launched his "Is Bush an 'idiot'?" segment | Jonah Goldberg, Cultural Idiot
FOX WATCH -- Bill "loofah" O'Reilly baselessly claimed judge who struck down warrantless wiretapping "would oppose every anti-terror measure the Bush administration would put in just because they are the Bush administration" | Behind the curve again: After USA Today Issues Correction, FOX Substitute Host Rich Lowry Repeats Debunked Smears Against Gore
WHAT A RUSH! -- Limbaugh, a purveyor of hate speech and eliminationist rhetoric, "respectfully" disagreed with Bush's pledge to not question opponents' patriotism
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- Quattrone Case Shows Bankers Escape Crackdown on Business Crime Under Bush Regime
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Mississippians get Katrina aid, at last; Louisiana lags as Bush regime blames Louisiana | Hurricane Chief Warns Of "A Mega-Disaster... With Lots Of Lost Lives"
ELECTION THEFTS --Watch this! E-Voting Flaws on Lou Dobbs | New Zogby Poll: Americans Object To Secret Vote-Counting Software, Insist On Right To Watch Their Votes Being Counted
EDUCATION IN THE SMIRK AGE -- Report: Charter school pupils score lower
RACISM IN THE USA -- Pitchfork Pat Buchanan: Stop immigration to save white civilization | George Felix Allen Jr's Campaign Manager Retracts Apology | He Loves Racists! Bush Will Raise Cash For Macaca-mouth Sen. George Felix Allen Jr. | Embattled GOP Senator George Felix Allen Jr's campaign manager blames "liberal media" for Allen's racist comments | Right Wing Reacts To Terrorist Plot With Calls For Radical Ethnic Profiling
MORALITY MORONICS -- Arch-Conservative Randall Terry Excludes Gay Son, Adopted Daughter From Campaign Family Photo
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Oil Exec: WH Won't Push Energy Conservation -- So We Will
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Bush evangelizes market fundamentalism on health care (translation: ya can't afford health care? Then go die!)
TRASHING NATURE -- Judge Blocks Bush Admin Plan To Log In Giant Sequoia National Monument

August 22

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Bush In Effect Pled Guilty to Second Impeachable Offense: Lying to Congress | If, in our revulsion at Abramoff's crimes, we are induced to accept Abramoff's politics, it will be K Street's greatest triumph yet | Duke Cunningham Investigation Sprawls into 2007 | There's something rotten going on in the Alabama Democratic Party | Is the GOP Push Polling in Arizona? | Aw, c'mon, Harry! Reid pushed for buddy developer, contributor
TRAITORGATE -- Newest Traitorgate nugget: Calendars Show Dick Armitage Met With Bob Woodward in Mid-June '03
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Two critical, under-recognized points about Judge Taylor's ruling | Eighth Circuit: You can be arrested and accused of drug dealing for driving with cash | Grading the law professors; apologies due Judge Taylor
HOT POLITICS -- Democrats should launch an October Surprise | Watch this! Sen. Conrad Burns falls asleep on the job | Connecticut Groups Push to Remove Lieberman From Ballot | George Felix Allen Jr., Comedy Gold Dept: Satire Called, He Said Reality Is Taking Food Out Of His Family's Mouth | Sen. Allen's Lead Over Opponent Shrivels After "Macaca" Comment | CT-Sen: Joe's Bad Day | Bush has no firm plan for the Iraq war -- but he has a terrific campaign plan to promote his qWagmire as a political plus | HI-Sen: GOP candidate doesn't want to follow debate rules | Joe Lieberman is featured in advertisements on right wing sites | Sen. Ted Kennedy: Dick Cheney Has Gone Too Far | We're just surprised it wasn't FOX News Channel | NY state GOP candidate seeking Clinton's Senate seat suspends campaign after daughter's arrest | Bush Insider: The First Frat Boy Loves Flatulence Jokes, and That's Why Bush Is Paranoid Around Women | VA-Sen: All It Took Was a Touch of Macaca! Webb Pulls Within Three Points of Allen | VA-Sen: Allen's Unsung War on Behalf of Small Household Appliances | Lamont and Lieberman Give the Wingnuts Headaches | What the Media Won't Tell You: In the Senate, Democrats Outstrip Republicans in Fundraising | Serial Adulterer Rudy Giuliani, Who Stands a Ski Vacation in Hell's Chance in 2008, Shares Political Wealth | Bush to GOP Candidates: Focus on Economy (Massive Deficit and Debt, Bursting Housing Bubble, Stagflation) | CBS Says GOP Fundraising "Outpaces" Democrats, But Talk About Anemic "Outpacing" | Democratic establishment pundit Donna Brazile criticizes Lieberman | Overruling Fraud Decision, Judge Says: What Happens in Iraq, Stays in Iraq | TX-22: Tough-Talking Wallace Withdraws | Mikhail Gorbachev: Bush Should Drop "Superpower" View, Cheney Should "Calm Down" | Harris Watch: Aide, Zen Riddler, Quits Campaign
QWAGMIRE -- Bush on Iraq: "We're Not Leaving So Long As I'm The President" | Doubts Grow Over Whether Mideast Cease-Fire Will Hold | General Abazaid: Unhinged, dishonest, or maybe a little of both? | When Bush pulls troops, will conservative warfluffers call it "cut and run"? | Bush never plans to leave Iraq, no matter HOW bad or HOW hopeless it gets | Bad News for BushCo: Public Opposes qWagmire | Bush Pledges $230 Million To Lebanon -- That' Less Than One Day Of Spending In Iraq | Stubborn Bush "Not Going to Leave" Iraq | Three members of a U.S. Marine unit were killed in action in western Iraq on Sunday | Bush concerned that pols and pundits on both sides of the aisle have labeled the qWagmire the "Iraq civil war" | Best War Ever! | Bush to UN: Bail Out My Lack of Engagement, Send Lebanon Peacekeepers Quickly | AP finds military recruiters are raping enlistees
WIDE WORLD OF TERRORISM -- Yes, Bush did say "I would guess, I would surmise that some of the more spectacular bombings are done by al Qaeda suiciders" | As John Aravosis said, another Bush "slam dunk": Judge throws out terror charge in José Padilla case | Brits to FBI: Quit Leaking Terror Probe Secrets
DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE -- Iran rejects nuclear offer | Iran issue response to calls to curtail nuke program | Diplomats: Iran Refuses U.N. Inspectors
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Bush's Gray Lapdog: New York Times' Eavesdropping Story Wasn't The Only One Squashed For Bush During 2004 Campaign | Why Tom Friedman Should Resign From the New York Times | Once again the collaborationist media repeated and failed to challenge Republican claims that Democrats oppose wiretapping terrorists' phone calls | Watch This! The Backlash Against Conservative Joe Scarborough's Daring "Is Bush an 'idiot'?" Segment Begins | Tucker Carlson had a darned good excuse for missing the first 2 weeks of "Dancing With the Stars" rehearsals: he was dodging bullets for MSNBC in Lebanon! | Watch this! Cafferty nails it: Lieberman is more of a Republican than he is a Democrat | TIME sure has its journalistic priorities straight... not! | Bush Official Still Won't Be ID'ed, PBS Host Says | David Gregory: NBC's Energizer Bunny!
UNFUNNY BU$INE$$ -- AOL Fires 2, Loses 1 Employee In Wake Of Data Release Scandal
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Nagin: Bureaucracy and a lack of money are slowing the rebuilding of New Orleans
ELECTION THEFTS -- Poll shows 92% of Americans want right to see ballots counted
OH, GOD! -- Church Fires Sunday School Teacher For Being A Woman
MORALITY MORONICS -- Buchanan: Conservatives will likely lose the so-called culture war
ENERGY SCANDALS -- Oil prices spike pre-deadline
HEALTH DEBACLES -- Evangelicals' heads explode as President Bush said he supports making Plan B available without a prescription to women over 18 (WARNING: Moonie Press Link)
TRASHING NATURE -- Virginia Asks Global Warming Skeptic To Stop Calling Himself "State Climatologist'

August 21

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION -- Long an "Invisible" Force, ADM to Register First Lobbyist
BIG-BROTHER-GATE -- Sen. Chuck Hagel on the NSA ruling: Thinks the President overstepped his bounds | CIA-watching paper raided in Italy | CIA's secret UK bank trawl may be illegal
HOT POLITICS -- An American Turning Point: Pundits See Iraq Failure Jas Jurt So-called War on Terror, People Want Bush removed | Katherine Harris: Martha Mitchell Redux? | Hillary Clinton's star is finally rising, says Time poll | Watch this! Is Lieberman "The New Dick Cheney"? | Kerry Blasts Lieberman, Big Time | McCain Advisers: Easy To Switch From Bush To McCain Because They Agree On "Similar Things" | Ohio GOP House Hopeful Won't Face Legal Hassle | Lamont Attracting New Democratic Allies | GOP's Financial Edge Shrinks; Challengers Gain On Incumbents | John Kerry: Joe Lieberman Is "Adopting The Rhetoric Of Dick Cheney" | The Media Has Made Hillary Clinton The Most Polarizing Figure On The Current Political Landscape | To Replace DeLay, TX GOP Picks Polite over Pushy -- But Pushy Won't Leave | On the political language front, Democrats are fighting a conventional war against an enemy that just won't fight fair
QWAGMIRE -- AEI Fellow After Meeting With Bush: President May Take Military Action Against Iran In 12-18 Months | Okay, So Now It's a Civil War. What's Next? | "What has been accomplished? Violence is escalating. The death rate of Iraqi civilians is escalating. Bomb attacks directed at U.S. soldiers are escalating " | Iran Fires Practice Missiles and Affirms Nuclear Stance | Iran: Power and the people | McCain Calls For Escalation In Iraq, Suggests Putting More Troops On The Ground | Atrios channels incoherent McCain | Hagel: Iraq Is In A 'Very Defined Civil War' | Hagel: 'Don't Feed More Troops to Iraq' | Inactive troops recalled for Iraq | Gunmen Target Shiite Muslims, Kill 22, Injure Hundreds | Pentagon "blacking out" Cold War data | Four US Soldiers Killed In Clash With Taliban | "Atheists in foxholes" demand respect, recognition and honor | Sen. Hagel: "Iran Probably Has More Influence In Iraq Than We Do" | 71 Suspected Taliban Members Killed In Fierce Clashes In Afghanistan | "While the administration has been pouring its energies and money into Iraq, it has fallen far behind on steps needed to protect the homeland"
BORDER BUNGLES -- Pakistanis Find U.S. an Easier Fit Than Britain
MEDIA CORRUPTION -- Finally! The Huffington Post shows you what right-wingers see when they read the New York Times | Is The Solid Conservative Media Front Cracking? | Conservative Pundits Renounce The President
DISASTROUS RESPONSE -- Bush is the villain of Spike Lee's Katrina documentary | Well, that's just great: FEMA Understaffed In Face Of Hurricane Season
HOMELAND HIJINKS -- Agency countering terror threats seen in disarray
JUSTICE WATCH -- Professor Tribe points to 'those with constitutional blood on their hands' | Lawrence Tribe responds to critics of Judge Taylor's ruling in the NSA Case | More arrogance and incompetence from the Texas Attorney General
GUNS! GUNS!! GUNS!!! -- Another Bush legacy: increased crime and violence
OH, GOD! -- Religious right leader in Illinois resigns after string of high-profile failures
RACISM IN THE USA -- Glenn Reynolds, a bigot trying to have it both ways